Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.
Josh Billings
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Good
Publicly
Steal
Stealing
Reputation
Enjoy
Character
Give
Giving
Privately
More quotes by Josh Billings
The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.
Josh Billings
I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.
Josh Billings
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
Josh Billings
The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
Josh Billings
Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
Josh Billings
The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.
Josh Billings
It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven
Josh Billings
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
Josh Billings
The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
Josh Billings
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
Josh Billings
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Josh Billings
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Josh Billings
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh Billings
Method is the arithmetic of success.
Josh Billings
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Josh Billings
I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings
When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.
Josh Billings
Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.
Josh Billings
Fuss is half-sister to hurry, and neither of them can do anything without getting in their own way.
Josh Billings
Shame is the dying embers of virtue.
Josh Billings
